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Nothing ventured, nothing gained, Markay!
For me, I have made a strong commitment to only trying new roses that have a proven track record for disease resistance, breaking this directive only on the rarest occasion. Even then, disappointments occur even with well documented disease resistors.
This year, for example, my two disappointments, yearlings in my garden: Double Easy Orange (Orange Dude), and Reminiscent Coral, turned out to be pretty bad black spotters.
DEO has shown itself a magnificent grower for Diane B., and disease free for Jim (although it had a disappointing winter die-back, attributed to a particularly severe winter for its first one for him).
Reminiscent Coral has won an A.R.T.S. designation which accolade has not shown its worthiness in my garden. I have one tough garden for roses.
A heat trap causes my garden to register 6-7°F. higher than local temperature reports during the heat of the day. The air circulation is also restricted by large, tall buildings (a large city hospital being one of them), crammed together in my old city neighborhood. Yet, winter gives me additional angst. A winter wind tunnel deflects off the hospital across the street, and barrels through my roses all winter.
Roses torture me! I don't know why I forge ahead with them. They do draw me in like no other flower. I am smitten with them. I don't like having to deal with their challenges, but I never fail to marvel at their beauty. Beauty has a price!
Moses.
Markay, yes Lakeside is the one. I just sent them an email asking when their earliest shipping date is for bare roots in warm zones :-D
Lakeview replied, and said that they'd send roses to me in their first shipments at the end of February. So pretty much exactly the same as Palatine (after they discontinued fall shipping). Given weather variations, sometimes I've gotten Palatine in mid-Feb, and sometimes first week of March. Lakeview was extremely quick in replying and very friendly :-D
It is now OCTOBER 1st. How about moving to this thread:
https://www.houzz.com/discussions/6616537/your-october-2026-bloomers
haha! I removed these pots today. I had them here temporarily until the siders get here.
Frost warning tonight and they are going down hill steadily.
Thunbergia still looking good but we'll see after tonight. 35d predicted.
Just on more post for September from me :
At long last I have a Russian Hollyhock blooming (I've lost so many...)
We have a local Costco that actually has a big greenhouse nursery. One year they were loaded with flats of Ping Lim roses. True Serenity , the hot pink, was probably my favorite for great fragrance, form, petal count.
Enjoying the True Serenity rose Markay and all the background plants... :-) Yellow Submarine looks good too!
True Serenity gossiping with Peter Mayle, I adore her ruffles!
All my Dahlias are seed grown.
Such lovely photos, everyone! My dahlias flat-out stink this year. I don't get it. I must have about 40 dahlias planted out in the garden, and I think so far this year I've had maybe a dozen blooms total. I have many that still have not bloomed, and somewhat embarassingly, the dozen or so dahlias I gave away have not bloomed either. My co-workers keep coming up to me wondering why the plants I gave them have no flowers!
Plants are healthy, they're in the same light situations as always - the only difference is that we've had lots of rain this year so I barely have had to hand-water the garden at all. Could it be too much rain? I think not, since again, the plants are doing well.
Just disappointing to do ALL that work that one needs to do with dahlias, and get no pay-off. I console myself with the fact that I am at least growing more tubers lol - although that's not necessarily a good thing! I will be swearing come November and especially next spring!
:)
Dee
Dang it, Dee. That is disappointing.
Those are so pretty @Markay MD-Zone 7B...actually gorgeous.
Given that they are in bloom from April implies the plants overwintered (rather than from self seeding)?
Those are gorgeous, Markay!
Three BerryBux blueberry bushes.
Last night I planted Clematis durandii behind the Peony Sorbet I has put in the day before.
In the previous day in another redo bed I also planted a Clematis Multi Blue that I moved from too much shade. Then added a Peony Catherine Fontaine along with 3 each of Pycnanthemum virginianum, Stachys o. Rosea, Achillea p. The Pearl, Penstemon hirsutus & Linum perenne. So happy to have this done.
A whole bunch of native perennial plugs plus 6 native small-ish shrubs (2 Kalmia latifolia, 2 Ceanothus americanus and 2 Itea virginica). It is all for the front yard. Can't wait for spring even though the drought has been hard on some of the shrubs despite watering.
I would like to report Heirloom Roses has already sent me a confirmation for the replacement of all 5 roses. I am glad they did. I have been a loyal customer ordering roses every single year for 10 years and I feel like they did the right thing when I needed them. I will not be purchasing any other roses with this new method. I normally reuse my plastic pots anyway.
Frostweed, Verbesina virginica. It gets it's name because it's lower stems ooze sap that forms ice sculptures in winter.
Some Frostweed ice sculptures.
Crooked Stem Aster, Symphyotrichum prenanthoides and Cliff Goldenrod, Solidago drummondii
A new plant species for me Hasteola sauveolens.
Fall colors of Tall Verbena, Verbena hastata
A surprise vollunteer that's a blast from the past, Abelmoschus manihot. It has beautiful Hibiscus-like, large, creamy yellow flowers with marroon throats. The seeds stsy viable for decades, waiting to get turned over onto the soil surface. I hope ir blooms and makes seeds asap.
Apios priceana is extremely rare. A native perennial bean that would be good to eat if it wasn't threatened. I thought I needed an unrelated mate to pollinate it, but luckilly it wasn't needed.
Short's Aster, Symphyotrichum shortii. Likes shade and woodland edges.
Elm Leaved Goldenrod, Solidago ulmifolia. One of the best goldenrods for shade.
Devil's Walkingstick, Aralia spinosa
White Snakeroot, Ageratina altissima. It's very common en masse everywhere locally. I let some vollunteers bloom for the pollinators and then pull them all before they go to seed.
Heath Aster, Symphyotrichum ericoides. The foliage really does resemble Heath. There's a cultivar of Heath Aster "Pink Star" that is outstanding, and I must have it.
Symphyotrichum ericoides "Pink Star". Not mine but I wish.
Sawtooth Sunflower, Helianthus grosserratus. It can grow to 15 feet and sometimes higher.
An aster perhaps Symphyotrichum pilosum var pringlei or Symphyotrichum racemosum?
Especially love that photo with the aster and goldenrod and...